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The [second] co[mming of Our] Lo[rd] dedicate [...] Britt[...] by the La. Eleanor.
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Eleanor, Lady, d. 1652.
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in the last dayes such witts or Scoffers so with those tydings of the great day made their sport And how festivall times Easter Witsontyde and the rest solemnized in City and Countrey with what doings in stead of workes of charity and Almes deeds how sends presents one to another Play-houses visited and drinking houses halfe the Sabbath day very Sodome no other possest with the same spirit of blindnes And thus here a line and there a line concerning the Spirit of prophesie to be powr'd out from yeares discending to dayes verse And after three dayes and a halfe the Spirit of life from God enterd into them these two Prophets and they stood upon their feet aluding to that when they falling dead at the feet of the Angel the Lord of Sabbaths which were againe raysed Daniel and John those so greatly Beloved as he by a touch of the Scepter the seven stars c. And these Things like that doubled Dream because the things Established Geneses 41. visible in our Horizon of the sevententh Century wherein held such an impossibilitie for Prophets againe to arise before the day of Judgement yet shall goe on with the meaning also of that great voice Come up hether And they ascended in a cloud up beheld by all Them stricken in a moment with no little astonishment VVhich referred to your judgements whether or no speakes not to all you the wonderfull worke of God Great Brittaines Parliament voice as before Whitsontyde presented was unto the house this very place of Scripture even joyning with the Prophets loud voices as they Gods kingdome proclaime so serves for their thankesgiving and the Cities as come to passe since the last ascensions feast after that sad breakefast blow bestowed on their enemies unto which Shall add this for another Verse 13. And the same houre as much to say at tenne in the morning signifying also the same time when gathered together those severall Nations Acts 2. Stranger of Rome Jewes and Proselites when such a noise wher shewes moreover within an houres space how many slain and so many thousands taken and a remnant that tooke the Covenant or gave glory to God Also the list of Names returnd as in the Originall signifying names of men Mens names all where also those wrathfull Irish Et Jratae sunt gentes advenit ira tua as at the day of Judgement for them no Quarter by Their dispairing of mercy setting their Names too for the rising of the dead to be revealed before the END to these Kingdomes And againe as serves for the houre of the day vers 13. so beares date in the yeare One thousand seven Hundred beside Seven hundred slaine exprest shewing the second woe past is behold the third WOE comes quickly Namely about Michaels feast The seventh Angel or last Trumpet gives warning of it So farthermore for those great victorious Voices where such Tyranicall power resigned for which the rejoycing Elders 24 for evermore siting Not more extoling GODS power herein Then the NATIONS fil'd with Envy to see the Crown and Honour of the day Conferred on such derided heretofore so much contemn'd As not by might or Army nor by power But by my Spirit saith the Lord of hosts And for the Temple opened those heavenly gates or two Olive trees to wit vers with the mistery made knowne of Time measured by his Reed or sharp Rod given him to measure with Thus much suffices And for such Stormes and Out-cryes where the tree of Life offered to every one Not unlike the tree of Knowledge at first pleasant to Him afterward all as bitter Neverthelesse when the houre past like her Travell the Mother of all living rememberd not at all And so farre for the Cause set forth of Canterburys suffering And their dead Bodies not suffered to be BVRYD expos'd to the veiw whose seven Yeares compleat before going into prison The expresse EPYTOMIE of Antichrists Kingdome in the 1700. yeare also destroyed to bee or Cut off for Ever Postscript SO then what differnce between them obedient to the Divell that inquire of evil spirits others disobedient to the spirit of God or to whom his command peremtory Yet like the deafe Adar stop the Eare much like the case of thos two Sons in the Gospel or Brothers the one where gives such an undutifull answer the other nothing but faire words who as though Antiquity were a plea for error or custome any excuse for any thing by his Apostles prohibited As in that inacted by them against eating blood So well Observed Acts 15 verse 20. Also verse 30. Saying for seemed good to the HOLY GHOST and to us to lay no greater burthen upon you then these necessary things that ye abstaine from meats offered to Jdols and from blood and from strangld meat and from fornication from which things if yee keep your selves yee shall well fare yee well And againe cap. 21. verse 25. We have written and concluded c save only that ye keep your selves from things offered to Jdols And from blood and strangld meat and from fornication Where although disburthened of all the rest but blood the life of every thing Which like the forbidden tree or the tree of life in the midst of Paradice standing as this between a branch of the first and second table afterward notwithstanding ready drest at 〈◊〉 â—ays The Apostles Ordinances nothing made of â—t and not only these freely digested but libels published by authority against holy authority too 〈…〉 some on … sides as that unsufferable fable â—â—â—led a reâ—â—tion of the two Witnesses their coming down from heaven And fighting with Antichrist also for another a late preface with that bold universall that all spirits which do suffer themselves to be inquired at are evil spirits and therefore of the Divill as much to say or afirm the Holy Ghost cannot do what he pleases or that any thing is impossible or too hard for God to do And for their Philosophie as meane weake as their Theologie behold his produced Booke De Magia Naturali apparent whereby her spirit absent from the body that for so long might be awakend by no meanes So to him who is Alpha and Omega both Jn whom consists all and some both the only affirmative and negative voice be all praise Amen FJNJS
THE 〈…〉 C … 〈…〉 LOâ—â— DEDICATE◠〈…〉 BRITT … By the LA ELEANOR LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1645. THE REVEALING OF OVR LORDS second Comming Revela XI AND to measure or give the meaning of this place of Scripture of age to speake in these accomplished dayes for it self a touch whereof suffices to be given So touching this Angel which stood and made that solemne Oath swearing by the maker of all things That TIME should no longer bee saying Arise and measure the TEMPLE and Them that worship therein c. Doubtlesse the selfe same beheld by the Prophet DANIEL 12. Which speakes to this Evangelist at first clothed in Linnon on the waters and as in his resurrection raiment then so here in the Ascensions clothed in a cloud the Angelicall Robe giving by this to understand when the rising from the dead to be reveald or times reigne finished so commands him to w ite as it were what shall come to passe when the Church shall be refined before the end or a reformation leaving and casting out the Court OF ROME in those dayes returnd to Heathenisme that mother of ignorance tyrannizing and treading downe the Church standing out for the truth unto the end where those sacred Witnesses cast out for dead guiltie of the Prophets blood and our Saviours Thus shewing when that Eclips past those mists dispel'd and afterward preachd the Gospel when as farre West as East before the evening or setting of time for an infalible Fore-runner of the end of the World come for which all bidden to watch How then it shall come to passe Informes this Disciple This blessing of Blessings how added to the former even out of the Scriptures the Old and New two Bookes to be interpreted for our Lords comming revealed and these like as in daies of Old with signes and tokens evident to all And as here appeares shews then how those new moulded dayes rewarded opposing the Holy Ghost made to waite They plagued also fares with them 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 Heavens 〈…〉 wher silenced the Spirit of Prophesie As came to passe before that deliverance of theirs out of that Bondage and before Bals Preists put down not one escaping great blessings as sometime accompanied with no light corrections And these the summe of that Angelicall discourse So proceeding with the generall Resurrection and Ascensions 〈…〉 … ose bo … 〈…〉 one taken up both waiting 40. dayes in the Mount of God And that dead Souldier revived by a touch of the Prophets Corps all prophecying to these last dayes of such division devided like those waters some-time them As here the gift of the Holy Ghost like the Cloven tongues in the seventeenth hundred Yeares under those Characters exprest ver 2. And the Holy-Citie shall They tread under foote 42. Moneths and so again And I will give to my two Witnesses and They shall Prophecie a Thousand two Hundred and sixty dayes c. to wit seven Times signified by these Three yeares and halfe doubled by Moneths and Dayes including also the VVorlds mistical VVeeke Cut Off VVhere farther for makeing plaine of These multiplyed rough obscure places Concerning how long the Churches Warfarre To receive double for all HER Sinnes referred unto TIMES farwell redoubled as declared also to HIS Servant the Prophets Daniel 12. And from the Time that the daily shall be taken away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up There shall bee a Thousand two Hundred and Ninty dayes Blessed is hee that waiteth and commeth to the Thousand three Hundred and Thirty five Dayes to wit as aforeshewd Seven times even the Number of rest or so many yeares under the reigne of ANTICHRIST till which accomplished Daniel bidden to be gon and rest satisfied or take his long sleepe A Thousand seven Hundred yeares as much to say from the time of the last Supper given before HIS blessed Resurrection day made the Churches day of REST Vntill the generall rising from the dead Like the thrice foureteene Generations Mat 1. or three Periods each fulfilling 500. yeares here in like manner given under the Angels hand lifted up testifying or protesting A time and Times and halfe or part And thus as five Hundred yeares going to a Period of TIME fulfills 1700. yeares so by taking away a Thousand from those Propheticall two Thousand six Hundred twenty five daies Even comes to the Yeare 1625. That unparaleld troublesome Time where he stiled the great Prince MJCHAEL that shall stand up going before the generall Resurrection the dead There standing upon their feet Daniel 12. by that Arch Angels dreadfull Alarme awakned And so Blessed is he that comes and waits to 1645. the end And where every word hath its weight as points at the last Centurie to be devided and the very halfe yeare So here shewes when the End of time come â—as no great misse or losse of it Where nothing from head to foot but Plagues and Vlcers the Bottomlesse-pit opend Hell LET LOOSE How it shall come to passe in those days preferring darkenesse before light These things when as againe Prophesied to Nations People and Kings being come to its full Time even overcome and Killed by that spirit ascended out of the Bottomlesse pit Monster of Mankind The ascensions Enemy and the Resurrections not a little insenced and wyld whose sentence on Record of old In this manner He must be killed verse c. which offers violence to them from above indued with such power and inspired To be plaine He in the yeare 1633. translated to be Arch-BB And that suffer'd that Antichrist on a Friday which made his last Sermon witnesse Revel vers 5. where our Lord crucified VVas the very text as it were Heb. 12. For the joy set before him who indured the Crosse c. But proceeding on with these examined witnesses as for fire proceeding out of their mouths verse c. as aluding to the Feast time of the firie tongues so signifies againe fulfilled that of the Prophet Joel That on all flesh he will powre out his spirit the Gentils also and his sons and Hand-maids shall prophecie And so againe for interpreting Scripture by Scriptures for manifestation of the aforesaid measured times accomplishing the number of seven here turn'd to the Prophet Zechar. 4. Who when by the Angel awakend as a man out of his sleepe Saw a Candlesticke all of Gold with seven lamps seven pipes to the seven lamps two Olive thereby empting the Golden Oyle Signifying also before the Rising from the dead times mysterie how by the Spirit of prophecie extracted out divine vision to wit the Prophets aforesaid or two witnesses whose Bookes that Light so hatefull to men manifested with a witnesse thus Verse 8. And they shall see their dead bodies three dayes and a halfe lye in the street of the Great City spritually called Sodome and Egypt like Newes out of date Cast about because Prophecie for a time ceas'd And by the spirituall calling made their Pastime as not rare